Evra thanks God for a United shirt

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ON HIS FIRST DAY AS A Manchester United player, Patrice Evra asked Gary Neville for directions to the nearest church. His captain was racking his brain, trying to recall whether he had seen one near the club’s training ground in Carrington, when the new signing smiled and said that he simply needed somewhere where he could “thank God for letting me join the biggest club in the world”.

Evra has thanked God every day since arriving in Manchester in January 2006 and, while that does not make him unique among footballers, the 26-year-old France international has no doubt that he